Fiction Quotes · Page 44

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

— Bruce Boxleitner

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

— Tony Wilson

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

— Fred Saberhagen

It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.

— Robert Rhodes James

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

— Paul Theroux

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

— Erma Bombeck

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

— Joanna Russ

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying…

— Tess Gerritsen

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I…

— Julius Erving

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between…

— John Updike

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an…

— Susan Wiggs

“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece.…

— Joseph Telushkin

I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.

— Asa Butterfield

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different…

— Charles Stross

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,…

— Salman Rushdie

“the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, a number of possible windows not to be reckoned,…

— Henry James

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,…

— Hilma Wolitzer

Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science…

— George R. R. Martin

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

— Liz Curtis Higgs

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

— Vernor Vinge

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

There's this whole kind of fiction and image that marriage is perfect.

— Ant Anstead

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

— Mark Haddon

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

— Matt Groening

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

— Jess Phillips

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

— J. M. Coetzee

“Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin.”

— Julie Anne Lindsey

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

— Kiku Sharda